Saturday's high school roundup

-- Jay Milo improved to 3-1 and drove in the only run as North (12-4) blanked Austintown Fitch (13-2), 1-0, at Progressive Field. Alex Tromp added two hits, and he worked through a bases-loaded, no-outs situation in the seventh inning to earn his first save.

-- At Progressive Field, Kenston held off a late charge to beat Chardon, 6-5. Dalton Yost had three RBI for the Bombers (12-1). Chardon fell to 5-8.

-- Sophomore Matthew Finkler hit a home run and drove in three runs, and Mitch Seelinger also plated three as visiting Kirtland (9-5) beat Lake Catholic (5-11), 10-3.

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-- Fairport earned two victories, 2-1 over VASJ and 4-3 over Geneva. Cody Zalar had two hits and an RBI in the second game. VASJ came back to beat Perry, 2-1, and Geneva (4-5) beat the Pirates, 7-0.

-- Senior Mike Peters had two hits and two RBI and improved to 2-4 on the mound in the second game to help Cardinal (8-5) sweep visiting Grand Valley, 10-0 and 5-3.

-- Newbury and Ledgemont split a doubleheader, with the Black Knights (4-10) winning, 4-2, and the Redskins (5-6) rebounding for a 12-6 triumph. Newbury's Greg Clark had a combined three doubles and an RBI. He also won the first game pitching.

-- NDCL improved to 8-6 with a sweep of Berea, 10-2 and 12-1. Junior Ryan Proud doubled and had four RBI in the first game, giving him 18 RBI for the season.

-- Visiting Perrysburg took out South, 7-6 and 4-0.

-- Host Riverside (9-5) put up 17 hits in a 10-0, 9-4 sweep of Euclid (9-5). Junior Dan Walters had five hits and four RBI.

-- Visiting West Geauga blanked Fairview, 7-0. Noah Bidar had two hits, two runs and an RBI for the Wolverines (6-6).

-- Dominic Galioto had two hits as Wickliffe beat Harvey, 12-2.

-- Mike Brainard-Liddy hit a home run and had three RBI as visiting Madison beat Wickliffe, 13-10. The Blue Streaks had 14 hits.

-- The Mentor boys took third in the Amherst Steele Comet Relays. The Cardinals' high jump relay took first with a combined 17 feet, 8 inches. Kenston's Jason Cordiak won the 110-meter hurdles in 13.27. On the girls' side, Kenston's Alexis Taylor ran an area season-best 5:11.09 to win the 1,600. Mentor's Aysha Muhammad won the 100 hurdles in 15.81.

-- Euclid's Jeremiah Peters took second place in the discus (148-8) and shot put (51-3 3/4 ) at the Poland Invitational.

-- At the Pymatuning Valley Invitational, Harvey's 4x400 relay took first place, as did Reggie Browley in the shot put with a season-best effort of 49-2 1/2.